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ILLUSTRATED AND COMPILED BY MERRITT D. HOUGHTON 

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(LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

JAN 2 1904 

Copyright Entry 

CLASS <** XXc. No, 

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"Wyoming" 

^/tdrpted as the ~/~tate ~J~ong 
at the Tht. d State Industrial Con-Vent ton. 

PUBLISHED BY 

THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
GKAND ENCAMPMENT. WVO. 




WORDS B.Y 

CHARLES E. W1NT 



In the far and mighty west, 
Where the crimson sun seeks rest, 
There's a growing, splendid State 
that lies above 
On the breast of this great land, . 
Where the massive Rockies stand. 
There's Wyoming, young and strong 
the State I love. 



In thy flowers wild and sweet, 
Colors rare and perfumes meet; 

There's the Culumbine, so pure; the 
Daisy, too. 
Wild the Rose and red it springs. 
White the Button and its rings. 
Thou art loyal, for they're Red 
White and Blue. 



and 



Where thy peaks with crowned head, 
Rising till the sky they wed, 

Sit like snow-queens ruling wood 
and stream and plain; 
'Neath thy granite bases deep, 
'Neath thy bosom's broadened sweep, 
Lie the riches that have gained and 
brought thee fame. 



Other treasures Thou dost hold, 
Men and women Thou do«t mould; 

True and earnest are the lives 
that Thou dost raise. 
Strength! thy children Thou dost teach, 
N^turc'.s! tvriith'Thou giv'st to each, 

Free and and noble are thy work- 
•**, '"'jngs and thy ways. 



In the nation's banner free 
There's one star that has for me 
A pure radiance and a splendor like 
the sun; 
Mine it is, Wyoming's star. 
Home it leads me, near or far. 
O, Wyoming! All my heart and 
love you've won. 




MUSIC BY 



Chorus 
Wyoming 1 ! Wyoming! Land of the 

sunlight clear. 
Wyoming! Wyoming! Land that we 

hold so dear. 
Wyoming! Wyoming! Precious art 

Thou and thine. 
Wyoming! Wyoming! Beloved State 

of mine. 



EARLE R. CLEMENS 

(Arranged by A. W. COE 



i opyrigrbted 1903, bj Winter s Clemens. 



STAGE ROAD 
THROUGH EOREST 

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SCENE ON THE 
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE 



Grand 
Encampment 



T^HE size and population of Grand Encampment give no idea of the extent of bus- 
iness transacted here in the last two years, but it is well known to aggregate 
into the millions. 

The North American Copper Company, capitalized at 620,000,000, are the heaviest 
investors and the main support of the town. This concern owns and does business 
under the heads of: Encampment Smelting Company, Encampment Pipe Line Ditch 
Companv, Encampment Tramway Companv, Encampment Water Works Company, 
Emerson Electric Light Company, Haggarty Copper Mining Company. North Amer- 
ican Mercantile Companv, and Carbondale Coal Company. 

The North American interests include the coal mines at Carbondale, the Ferris- 
Haggarty copper mine at Rudefeha, the 16-mile aerial tramway between Rudefehaand 
Grand Encampment, the longest aerial tramway in the world: the concentrating, 
smelting and converting works at Grand Encampment; the four-mile pipe line for 
water power: the electric plant which lights Grand Encampment; the water works 
which supply Grand Encampment; and the big transportation barns and business of 
the town. 

The total investment to date, including $1,000,000 for the Ferris-Haggarty, will 
equal nearly 52,500.000. 








Copyrighted 1 KQ by Wt-rritt P>in.i Houghton, 



The Town of GRAND ENCAWPnENT, Carbon Co. ( i\\'\o. 




the 

EERRlS-hAGGARTY 
MINE 



OlNCE this illustration was obtained, a number of 
building-s have been added to the gr^up at the lower 
works, and $250,000 appropriated for improvements to 
this great system of which the mine, though only a part, 
is the base of operations. 

At the time of the state geologist's last report, the 
ore in sight was estimated at somewhat above four mil- 
lions, and since that time^the company's experts have 
reported a much larger amount. 

The present output of the reduction works is one 
million pounds per month, which is not large compared 
with the largest copper mines of Montana and Lake 
Superior, but the above amount to be expended shortly, 
will make a much increased output for the North Ameri- 
can Copper Company, place the Ferris-Haggarty mine 
among the prominent copper properties of the country, 
and attract attention to the state of Wyoming as a coming 
heavy producer of the red metal. 




THE COLDWATER CO.'S 
WOLVERINE MINE 

Th" Coldwnter is the oldest and richest mine of the Pearl dis- 
trict. At a depth of 130 feet it has a vein of ore thirty feet wide 
from which carload shipments have been made to Chicago at a 
profit. The ore carries values of from ten to forty per cent cop- 
per, besides silver and gold in paying quantities. The mine is 
being systematically developed and its immense ore deposits are 
being blocked out for future treatment, probably on the ground. 
The principal owners are residents of Encampment and of 
Michigan. 



Pearl Copper Mining 
and Smelting Company 

Swede Property 

Six hundred feet of development work has been done on this prop- 
ert}', and ten to fifteen per cent ore is constantly being- placed on 
the dump for future treatment. A drift from the 170-foot level cut 
ore 85 feet to the northwest. The next hundred feet in the shaft gave 
copper values of low grade, and the ore in the drifts at 270 feet depth 
assays from 8 to 30 percent ovpr a large portion of the area reached 
by drifts representing approximately 100 feet square. 

It is chiefly the record of these two properties that has awakened 
such interest in the Pearl mining district. 





Iron Bridge over the North Platte River at Saratoga 



TTHE WATER OF THE PLATTE RIVER is sufficient for the irrigation of many thousand acres 
of the land lying between the Sierra Madre and the Medicine Bow mountain ranges, known as the 
Platte Valley, and for several years our people have struggled with the proposition, but found it too 
large for their personal efforts. Smaller enterprises for taking water from the streams and mountain 
lakes are gradually reclaiming the lands adjoining the foothills, but to the farmer of limited means, the 
only way of securing the necessary water right, is the high line ditch and storage reservoir. 



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RAA\BLER--"Thc home of the Doune A\inc' 




The Doane Mine is located a few hundred yards to the right of ihis 
illustration. New management has given new life to this mine and it 
ranks among high grade producers. Shipments have lately been made 
and ore bodies are being encountered and put in shape for successful 
handling. 



Many beautiful flowers upon the plains are dwarf plants, forming a moss-like cushion upon the ground with such 
an abundance of bloom that the effect is that of a colored mat. 

In the mountains, flower stalks are taller and more slender, like the columbine. At an altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 
feet the flor.i of the mountains attracts thousands of humming birds which come so quietly and at the first severe frosts 
of autumn disappear as mysteriously as they came. 




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O EVERAL veins of copper, silver 
and gold have been cut on this 
property, and recently a new shaft on 
the Lucky Penny claim cut high grade 
ore at fifty feet depth. All the work- 
ings of this mining company hue pro- 
duced ore, and it is believed in mining 
circles that the Evening Star property 
will rank among producers. 



RIVERSIDE. 



The first townsite location in this locality was at Riverside. Eventually Riverside 
and Grand Encampment will be one town as a result of their mutual interests. 




The Evcniny Star Mine. 




The Wolf Motel, Saratoga, 

Tree! G. Wolf, Proprietor. 




Phillips Coal Bank. 



The^several coal mines on the Platte river, below Saratoga, are 
worked with inexpensive improvements yet they are supplying fuel for the 
entire valley. 



The Vauxhall consists of ten claims lying between 
the Evening- Star and the Aetna, joining the latter mine 
on the east. It is thought the same fissure vein on 
which the A.etna is located runs through this property 
as well as several contact veins all of which are to be 
cut by extending the tunnel on which the assessment 
work is done. The property is owned by James Farrow 
of Denver. 



Carbondale Coal AAines 

The Coal Mines of the North American Copi er Company 




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Near the summit of the Beaver divide is the Aetna 
mine as represented in the distance of the Vauxhall 
sketch. Its high grade ore has accumulated upon the 
dump until this nvne stands among the producers of the 
district, and with the Evening Star constitutes the 
h"pe of the Beaver locality. 




BATTLE 

On I he summit ot the continental divide, ten miles west from Grand Encampment. 





Saratoga Branch of the State Eish Hatchery 



The U'crnli-Boardrnan Co., Grand Encampment 




View on the Ranch of A. H. Huston. 



The accompanying- sketch of Mr. Huston's ranch is produced here with no idea of faithfully portraying the rare panoramic beauty of the 
long stretches of meadow land, with streams and timber belts, herds of cattle, and distant mountain ranges that characterize the choice western 
ranch. The entire ranch includes 2,000 acres, situated on Cow creek. 





The New Rambler Wine. 



Tbe New Rambler has been successfully operated for three years, and produced several hundred thousand 
dollars worth of copper, besides losing- much valuable time from causes not oependent upon its ore bodies. With 
its remarkable copper values in the rare form of covellite, its platinum and palladium, this mine is of unusual 
interest alike to scientist and investor, and stands as the indicator of mining possibilities in the Medicine Bow 
mountains. 




T"HE JESSIE MlNES<, owned and operated by 

THE WYOMING COPPER \ G OLD MINING C O MP A N Y, HOG PARK WYO. 



Thi9 property is the central figure of 
the Hog Park district, with a reputa- 
tion of being a valuable mine. 

There are two veins upon which 
development work is being done with 
good copper values in each. 



THE 
ROUND-UP 





Tramway 
Station 
No. 2 



Station No. 2 is the middle of the 
great aerial tramway, and is the only 
transfer station on the line. Here the 
loads from the Ferris-Haj^g-arty dump 
automatically into great bins from 
which it is reloaded and passes from 
the lower story to the Grand Encamp- 
ment smelter. 




THE WOLPARD RANCH 










TUfR. AND MRS. W. H. WOLFARD located a homestead seventeen years ago where the buildings of their comfortable home now stand, as 
shown in the above illustration. With no means and a large family of little children, they struggled for several years with the smallest 
beginnings along agricultural lines, and marketed their products at Saratoga, twenty miles away, where was also the nearest postoffice. 
The small building in the further part of the group is the family school house where the father has conducted the education of his children, 
and from which three of their sons have already passed to the state university. Mr. Wolfard in his early years had intended to follow teaching 
as a profession, but poor health required an out-door occupation so he turned his attention to farming. The ranch at present comprises 400 
acres of land, irrigated by a ditch built at a cost of about $8,000. When ill health, early bias for professional work, and the vicissitudes of 
pioneer life in an arid country have not been sufficient to make this ranch a failure, others well endowed with health, strength and intelligence, 
have little to fear from casting their lot in the "arid west," 




Richmond's Livery Peed and Sale Stable 



Dam at the Head of The North American company's Pipe Line 

This pipe line is nearly four miles in length and has a diameter of four feet, 
and furnishes power for the smelting and electrical olants. 




Propert}' cf David Richmond, Saratoga. 



DUKE, a Prize Hereford, Registered No. 91466 

Owned by Captain L. G. Davis, breeder of thoroughbred Herefords, 
Saratoga, Wyoming. 




Miss Bohn was among the first to lo- 
cate in Grand Encampment, and ha9 
kept herself at the head of the hotel 
business since 1898. 

The new Bohn hotel is the business 
center of the town for the traveling- 
public. 



Ranch of George R. Brown 





The sheltered and picturesque ranch of George R. Brown is one where 
an invalid, or an artist, would choose to linger the whole summer through, 
or the man of leisure find a quiet winter to his liking-. 



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)ERYAM'S HOTEL has gradually developed from a road ranch 
with dirt roof, into one of the pleasantest retreats the 
traveling public may find in Wyoming-. 




Twin Cabins, Purgatory Gulch 




Hon. 
Willis Geo. 

Emerson 

whose name is as- 
sociated promin- 
ently with every 
import int feature of 
the print enterprises 
of Grand Encamp- 
ment, has ag a i n 
identified himself 
with the best ,nter- 
ests of the town and 
community in taking 
a leading part in the erection of the new bank 
building here represented. 



Hon. 
W. C. Henry 




THE E. & H. BUILDING, Grand Encampment 

THIS building is fifty feet front on Freeman avenue, and 115 feet deep on Sixth street. It is being- erected 
by Willis Geo. Emerson and W. C. Henry, whose portraitsl appear on this pag-e. The upper story 
will be <ccupied by the offices of the North American Copper Company, and the lower portion by the North 
American Trust Company bank, and by several business firms. 




Mr. Henry is Mayor of Grand Encampment, represents Car- 
bon County in the upper house of the legislature of Wyoming-, and 
is associated with Mr. Emerscn in erecting this business block. 
Mr. Henry resides permanently at Grand Encampment where his 
services are constantly demanded in behalf of the county, the 
community and town, and the "Copper" State Bank, of which he 
is president. 




The 

Big Creek 

Ranch 



The property of Hunter. Casteel & Hunter. 



The Highest Tower on the Tramway 



'J' HE BIG CREEK RANCH is one of the oldest and larg- 
est in this part of Wyoming-. The native hay har- 
vested in 1903 amounted to 1800 tons. Large fields of 
irrigated land are being- reclaimed with the intention of 
increasing: the hay crop to 3,000 tons. 





This hospital is well equipped, with 
trained nurse in charge. 



Dr. E. Perdue 



Ranch of D. Frank Crout 




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This rar.c'i coi t lins 340 acres of irrigated land. Very 
few f;.rms in the central states can yield the steady income 
of this ranch that was leased this year for a term of five 
years at an annual cash rent of $1100.00. Stock, alfalfa, 
grain and vegetables are the products which make profit- 
able this high rental. 




The 

Copper 
Giant 



Dr. D. Trunk Powcl 



THE stock of the Copper Giant was withdrawn from market nearly two years ago, and 
since that time the constant development going- on has been financed by Col. W. F. 
Cody (Buffalo Bill) and Dr. D. Frank Powell (White Beaver), whose confidence in the 
property is based upon the reports of expert mining engineers of long experience. One 
vein of 28 feet shows average gold values of $7.10 per ton. One ledge 240 feet in width 
shows an average of $2.10 per ton. Copper is beginning to show up in the tunnel where 
the under-ground works approach the ledge at a depth of 700 feet. 




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SARATOGA. WYOMING. 



gARATOGA has a population of about 1,000 inhabitants, and natural advantages for 
becoming a pleasant residence, agricultural town and health resort. The mineral 
Hot Springs Hotel, burned two years ago, will be rebuilt on a much larger scale with 
sanitarium and parks. 




Saratoga Public School 



d. T. Crawford 

Editor and Proprietor of The Saratoga Sun. 



Mr. Crawford's thirty years resi- 
dence in Wyoming has been notable 
for many public services faithfully per- 
formed. Once a member, and eight 

times chief engrossing clerk of the legislature, United States commissioner 
for the district of Wyoming, president of the press association, member of the 
bar for county and state, a ranchman, for eleven years the editor and propri- 
etor of the Saratoga Sun, the head of an interesting family of sons and 
daughters, and an untiring worker in behalf of public enterprises certainly 
entitles him to the high rank of an all-round western man. 




Pupils from this school enter 
the preparatory department of 
the State University. The school 
consists of four teachers and one 
hundred and seventy-five pupils. 




CRYSTAL LAKE— Near Tramway Station No. ?, Cow Creek 




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SrmtnBros 

E/ 
ncampnant 




Branding a /Maverick 



T N this picture, taken some twenty years ago by the author, 
is seen the real art of the maverick hunter. The horse, 
too, knows his business and is never beguiled into slacken- 
ing- the noose, while the roper is kindling- the fire and per- 
fecting title to his new claim. 




The immense number of trout caught 
annually from this river and its tributaries 
has necessitated the building of a branch 
hatchery in this valley. There is no stream 
in the United States that can excel the North 
Platte for rainbow trout fishing. 



Antelope 
n Pass Creek 
Basin 



At present the 
basin is occupied 
by valuable stock 
ranches, and ant- 
elope have disap- 
peared. 




The 
/Hess 

Wagon 



This shaft house represents a 
style of building in common use for 
the accommodation of medium sized 
steam plants used in development 
work among' the mines of this dis- 
trict. This company is one of the 
few that have not shut down since 
beginning active operations two 
years ago. 





A Holiday Pastime on the Continental Divide. 



Interior of the Copper &l\v Shaft House 





Dr. Dunsmorc's Ranch. 




Rev. II. Chas. Dunsmore 
D. D.. L. L. D. 



Sawmill of the North American Copper Company 



r rHOUGH Rev. Dunsmore is a fluent and persuasive minister of exper- 
* ience, and accustomed to holding prominent pulpits in the central 
states, he became the pioneer minister of Grand Encampment, organizing 
the People's Presbyterian church and remaining its pastor for two years. 
While here he received the degree of L. L. D. from his alma mater, and 
took the 32nd degree of Masonry in the Cheyenne Consistory. He is also 
Grand Chaplin of the Masonic and Oddfellows Grand Lodges. Without 
severing his relation to the church or the ministry, Mr. Dunsmore is build- 
ing a permanent home on his ranch and preaching alternately in country 
churches. 




The 
Elk Mountain 




The accompany ing illustration 
is of the property of the Elk 
Mountain Mining & Milling Co., 
located on Elk Mountain in the 
Medicine Bow range. 

The company has deed to 640 
acres of patented land upon 
which their workings are located, 
while the domestic buildings are 
upon a claim adjoining the sec- 
tion and but a short distance - • J 
from the mine. 

They have opened up three 
different veins carrying copper 
ore and in close proximity to each 
other; the main workings are on a 

fissure vein noted for producing large amounts of very high grade ore. The richest ore found near the surface ran 77 per cent copper. 
The working shaft is 183 feet deep and three drifts have been run at different levels, all of which show high grade ore as well as the 
shaft. The shaft has recently been equipped with an eighty horse-power boiler, hoist, engine and complete electrical equipment for 
litfhtintf the mine and doing work with one of the latest improved electric drills. It was this property that delivered the first ore 
received by the smelter at Grand Encampment. 



PEARL 





NE and one-half miles south of the Colorado and Wyoming state line, is situated the town of Pearl, in Big- Creek park. Surrounded as it 
is by one of the richest mineral belts to be found in the Rocky Mountains, it is safe to predict that Pearl is to be one of the successful 
mining camps of the future— Saratoga Sun . 

Within a radius of five miles are located the Cold water, Mt. Zirkel, Big- Horn, Big Creek, Kalamazoo,. Swede, Bon Bright, State Line 
and several less noted but interesting properties that show good reasons for being classified as favorable prospects. 






Mr. Olson came to America from Sweden sixteen years ago and 
obtained employment as a day laborer at Laramie in the tie pickling plant of 
that place. Since that time he has followed the tie business in every cap icity 
from "tie hack" to general manager, making the business a success for him- 
self and his associates, now known as the Carbon Timber Company. 

His valuable ranch, containing fourteen sections of land, is partially 
illustrated in the accompanying pen-sketch. 



Andrew 
Olson 



OLSON'S RANCH 






the 
tie drive 




Eive Hundred Thousand Ties- -Platte River 



Clearing a Bar at. the Rear of the Drive 




Close 

Quarters on 

the Tie Drive 



Going 
to Dinner 





Big Creek Lake 



AAiss /nary A. Bohn 

Pn i>rietoriil New Bihn Hutol 
Grand Encampment 





r,<>SK mi'liT the lofty mountains of the Zirkel group, is located Big Creek lake, from 
one to two iniles in diameter e;ich way. This lake lies at an elevation of nearly 10.000 
feel .mil supplies the water fur the Independence Mountain placer works, eighteen miles 
away, and will supply the water power for the Pearl reduction works, now being pro- 
moted by Chicago parties. 




1- 


-Prospectors. 


2- 


-Cable Bridge. 


3- 


-Double Tension Tower. 




On the (Treat aerial tramway. 


4- 


-Scribner's Stage. 




In front of the New Bonn Hotel. 


5- 


-Tramway Station No. 3. 


6- 


-A Mountain Spring. 


7- 


-Hereford Cows. 


8- 


-At the Rear of the Drive. 





Engineer Cramer and Assistants in Camp on the Line of 
the Grand Encampment and Rawlins 
Railroad Survey 

In the last two years our plains and canons have been enlivened with 
camps of civil engineers running and completing railroad surveys from 
Grand Encampment to the Union Pacific at Kawlins and Walcott. In the 
meantime, the Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific have graded, bridged and 
distributed the ties for the first thirty miles of their road and reached Grand 
Encampment with a successful survey via ihe Douglas Creek mining district 
of the Medicine Bow rangfe, which brings Laramie within 95 miles of Grand 
Encampment. The compAny is now laying rails in the eastern district. 



Frank 
Cramer 





Burros Carrying Lumber—Purgatory Gulch 

Courtesy of Mrs. Harry Ball 

The above illustration needs no comment, and it is to be regretted that the intr- 
esting scene of the burros with their load of lumber rolling down the mountain side 
was a photographic failure. 




Tort Steele Tie Loading Plant of the 
Carbon Timber Company 



Where 14000 railroad ties are taken from the river and delivered on track 
in the yards of the Unijn Pacific railroad in nine hours with a force of less 
than three dozen men. 



Breakfast 

Before Sunrise 

on the Tie Drive 




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HE TWO GROUPS 
of building's in the dis- 
tance in this illustration 
are those of the Ferris- 
Haggarty mine, nearly 
one mile away. 

Since this sketch 
was completed in June, 
1903, several important 
business houses have 
been established, among 
which are the Ferris- 
McGee Drug Company, 
the bank and the new 
Dillon Hotel. 

Some of the neigh- 
boring mines are the 
Osceola, which joins the 
Ferris-Haggarty on the 
Dillon side; the Batch- 
elor, with a carload of 
high-grade ore on its 
dump waiting for ship- 
ment when the roads 
permit; and thirty other 
properties all within a 
radius of three miles; in 
fact all mining opera- 
tions to the north and 
west are tributary to 
this town. 

A public hall has 
been erected by the Fed- 
eration of Miners; streets 
have been improved and 
residences built until 
the town has become, 
not only a business cen- 
ter for the surrounding 
mines, but a town of 
homes as well as pros- 
pectors. 




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Pouring Copper 

At the Converter of the North American Copper Company's 
Reduction Works at Grand Encampment. 



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The Sheepherder's home 

A ru^e corsTuction this house on wheels, 

And 3'et to the sheep-herder it is home, 
As it 9tands alone in the bleak foot-hills 

Where a'child'of nature he|dwells alone, 
Save for^his dog, the faithful friend 

Who follows his master day by day, 
And the solitude of the sheep- herder's life 

The word "alone" can scarce convey. 
Yet of his patient endurance so little is told, 

For, of the woof and warp of the factory's web, 
This silent hero holds the thread 

And clothes a nation from the fold. 

— Mrs. Julia E. Gaskill. 





Laddie, the Palomilla Pony 




An Unexpected Storm 



Rankin & Deal's Livery and Teed Stable 

Grand Encampment 




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This stable is equipped for seventy- five head of stock and is the 
terminal stable for the C. M. Scribner sta«-e line. 




TIE CA/np 

HEADQUARTERS 



Vulcan Mountain and the 
Head Waters of 
Spring Creek 

As seen from the continental divide. 



The tie choppers are locally known as "tie hacks" and board them- 
selves in small cabins distributed through the surrounding forest, conven- 
ient to the work. The average earnings of the men is from $3.00 toSS.OO 
per day. Many assist in the tie drive during the spring and summer 
months, and return to their chopping early in September. This camp is 
located on the Wyoming and Colorado state line, twenty miles south from 
Grand Encampment, where about 300 men are employed. 







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Head-quarters * ""-.carbon timber company' 
on the orand encampment ■• to. 




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The wild, free 
life of the cowboy 
is the natural, 
unrestrained ex- 
pression of a 
superb vitality, in 
a climate where 
all nature isexhil- 
arating, and he 
needs only to turn 
his energies into 
more thoughtful 
channels, to make 
him a brain power 
and the peer of 
any. 





Cabin of f*\. Hanley, Purgatory Gulch 




Red -Josephine 

This Short Horn thoroughbred cow 
and her calf are the property of R. A. 
Day, of Saratoga. 

Red Josephine weighs over 1600 lbs. 
without any special feeding, and her 
calf four months old will weigh favor- 
ably with ordinary yearlings. Such 
stock is rapidly improving the herds of 
Wyoming. 




OLF HOTEL, Saratoga, is owned by Fred 
G. Wolf, one of the early residents of Raw- 
lins, who came to the Saratoga Valley in 1882 
and located upon a ranch at Bennett's Peak. 
He and his family resided there until 1887, when 
they removed to Saratoga and established the 
Wolf Hotel, which appears on another page. 
Mr. Wolf is one of the pioneers whose faith in 
Wyoming has never faltered. With true western enterprise and 
patriotism, he believes there is nothing too good for the state and 
community in which he lives, and has built accordingly, that the 
traveling public who visit this great copper region of Wyoming, or the 
Saratoga mineral hot springs, may spend a restful hour for dinner 
and enjoy hotel accommodations that are a credit to any town or city 
of the west. In every position Mr Wolf has been called to fill of pub- 
lic or of private life he has been noted for the same completeness, 
thoroughness and success that distinguishes the Wolf Hotel and its 
management. 




Clements E. Jensen 

Junior member oi the tirni 
of Ciiis Jensen & Bro.. 
Saratoga, Wyo. 




The Jensen Post Office Block 

Property of Gustave Jensen & Brother, Saratoga, Wyo. 
Stages loading- and unloading U. S. Mail. 



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Residence of Gustave Jensen 





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The 
Mohawk 



The Chicago-Venture Mining Company, owning the Mohawk claim on the Ncrth 
Fork of the Encampment river, have been steadily developing their claim for the past 
year. The showing on the property has been highly praised by a number of expert min- 
ing men who have examined it, and the outlook is very encouraging for a first-class mine. 
Already ore of a low grade has been encountered and indications are good for the opening 
up of a large bod}' of high grade ore. Robert H. Young is in active charge of this prop- 
erty as president and general manager. 




Robert H. Young 

One of the early pioneers of the 
Grand Encampment and Battle Lake 
districts, who is well known through- 
out the mining camps of the Rocky 
mountains as an able and reliable 
mining man of twenty years experience. 
Mr. Young is a mining lawyer with a 
practical knowledge of mining in all 
its branches. 




Union Pacific 
Railroad Bridce 
at Tort Steele 



Knight of Rose, No. 154219 

24 months old. 

Herd Bull in the Registered Short Horn herd of I. M. Conness, 

Bennett, Wyoming-. 






This structure represents the massive style of bridges now being used along 
the line of the Union Pacific railway. 




The need of rugged vitality in western cattle, as indicated in the 
strong limbs and heavy coat of this animal, is the idea of Mr. Conness 
in preferring the strain of blood that runs in the veins of this Knight of 
Wyoming Short Horns. 






The Copper Aye fining and Smelting Company's Plant of Mining Machinery passing through Grand Encampment 



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Tie wagon carrying- the 125 horse power boiler was hauled by 24 horses; 22 horses hauled the compressor; 16 horses composed another team; while several 
teams ot sixes and fours hauled the 30 horse power 8x10 hoist, air drills etc, that constitute the large and complete plant of mining machinery recently installed. 

The great tramway crosses the Company's property diagonally, passing between the shaft house and the mouth of the tunnel, affording superior advan- 
t iges for the transportation of ore, a shipment of which was sent to the Encampm;nt reduction works in August, 1903, with favorable results. 

The property is owned by Minneapolis and St. Paul capitalists, who are financing the enterprise. C. W. Miller, Jr., its president and manager, devotes 
much time to the personal supervision of the Company's business. 

The illustration represents a scene of almost daily occurrence in this part of Wyoming and is typical of the many enterprises that are being pushed as 
rapidly as capital, energy and the most complete mining machinery can accomplish the work. 



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